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Recto: betrothal document relating to marriage. The bride is Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe. Different quantities of dinars of bridal gifts (for example 70, 40 and …
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Part of a ketubba for [...]rta bt. Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen and Mevorakh. The date and location are not preserved. Witnessed by [...] ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver …
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Beginning of a legal document written under the jurisdiction of David Maimonides. Dated: 12 Nisan 1576 Seleucid = 30 March 1265 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. (Information …
Legal document(s). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, yet bearing the PGP tag of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe(?). Recto: Mentions Shemuel and the of wife …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Settlement of a marital dispute between Elʿazar and his wife.
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Minute fragment from a bottom of a legal deed. Only part from the signatures from which tne names Yefet, and [Yeh]uda Hakohen are preserved. AA.
Ketubba, illuminated, from Rashid. Date: 14 Nisan 5542 AM (1782 CE). Bride: Simḥa bt. ___m[?] Fes. Groom: Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq Fes. The total ketubba value …
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Legal document. Barhun confirms in court that he holds or gives over merchandise including a bale of pepper and an amount of sugar. Names mentioned: …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 1465 Seleucid = September/October 1153 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Debt contract between Abū …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (active late 12th and first part of the 13th century). Gives a very detailed report …
Legal testimony. Location: Sunbāṭ, a small town in the Egyptian Delta. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1402 Seleucid = September/October 1090 CE. Reporting that the teacher Ṣedaqa b. …
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Court notebook with four distinct records. (I) See PGPID 40206 (II) "the release: Ḥalfon b. Avraham for Netanʾel b. [Ḥalfon ha-Levi?]; 24 dinars and 5 …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side: Legal document. Bottom part only. Written on vellum, so the text follows the curve of the fragment. There …
Fragmentary document(s) in Arabic script. One text block appears to be legal (two witness signatures preserved), another literary (at 180 degrees), and another is a …
Legal fragment in Arabic. Very damaged and difficult to read. Portions of ~7 lines are preserved.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Bilbays. Dated: 17 Adar II 1483 Seleucid, which is 15 March 1172. Husband: Manṣūr b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Bayt bt. …
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Marriage document. Long a narrow fragment from the left side of a ketubba, with only a few words surviving. The hand is by Mevorakh b. …
Recto: Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Alexandria. Involves Shemuʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi, who may be deceased; Yiṣḥaq b. [...]; two packages; transporting a deposit from …
Contract of a marriage agreement (shiddukhin) – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 206) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
A legal deed regarding division of money between partners involved in the silk industry (אלקזאזה ואסתעמאל אלתיאב). There is an agent named Elʿazar; [...] b. …
Legal fragment in Arabic script (lower right corner). Dating: probably Mamluk period or later. May refer to silk of Homs and Alexandria. Needs further examination.
A writ of qiddushin (betrothal), Tyre, ca. 1011-1037.
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Legal document, in Arabic script. Probably a marriage or divorce contract. Some readable phrases are: "لا يعترض معترض فيها", and "قطع وفصل لا رجوع". Needs …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Small fragment from a legal deed relating to Abū l-Faraj al-Jubayli, and his trip to Yemen. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Fol. 3: Possibly a replacement ketubba (אורכתא). Mentions Aharon. Signed by Yoshiyyahu b. ʿAmram.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal or official.
One of three draft versions of a document concerning an official (muqaddam) in the community of al-Mahalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. Saadya (active …
Verso (original use): Fragment of legal document(s) in Arabic script, though the hand resembles state documents. In the upper text block, mentions the end of …
Investment partnership (ʿisqa) from Cairo, dated 1 Adar 5562 AM (= 1802 CE), in which Efrayim b. Shabbetay ʿAda receives 150 reales from Qamr the …
Minute fragment, only two words זוזי דכספא are preserved, probably from a ketubah. AA
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), possibly appointing Avraham b. Uri Shabbetay Ashkenazi as someone's agent …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Ḥasan b. Yefet. Bride: Rayyisa bt. Mevasser. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 [...] 1345 Seleucid = 1033/34 CE. The marriage gifts …
Fragment of a deed of sale. In Arabic script. Unclear if any details are preserved or if it is all boilerplate. Needs further examination.
Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
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Legal document from Cairo, dated January 1819 CE (Tevet 5579 AM), in which Moshe Ḥafis (?) and his wife Senyora acknowledge their debt of 2085 …
Legal record (#24) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 9v-10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Tevet [5321] …
Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī, a virgin. Location: Fustat. Date: Tammuz 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1099–1187, under the authority of Moshe ha-Rav ha-Gadol. …
Legal document. Dated: Friday 12 Shevat 5407 AM, which is 1647 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman named Khāṣṣ bt. Shelomo Levi Somekh, the widow of …
Settlement between Abū l-Munā ʿUlla b. Sibaʿ (known as Ibn al-Dihqān), and Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen. The latter owes a debt (figures of …
Fragment from the left part of a bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi from 1127–1138, based on his years of scribal activity …
Bottom of a legal document signed by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), Munajjā b. Shelomo and Yeshuʿa b. Yaʾir. An addendum …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday night, 25 Kislev 1444 Seleucid, which is 1133 …
There arranged a match before us, we the [under]signed [witnesses... X]
b. R. Japheth, (may his) e(nd be) g(ood), with Sitt al-Banāt daught…
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Legal document fragment, perhaps 10th century, likely a release involving Shabbat b. Yeshaʿya and a certian Avraham. Verso contains jottings in Arabic and Hebrew characters.
Bottom of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. Mentions the rent of a …
Legal record (#55). Power of attorney. Extremely abbreviated. Belongs with #57 (settlement of the dispute). Abū l-Makārim b. Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Kirmānī appoints Bū Manṣūr …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Written under the authority of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (the first three lines consist of his …
Legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto and verso appear to be in different hands. Recto mentions the Qāḍī Ibn ʿAmmār and R. Yiṣḥaq. Might mention business …
Recto: Settlement made in the court of Fustat between Mufarrij b. Yefet b. Shuʿayb the Damascene and Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the Iraqi. The Dayyan consulted …
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Verso: Fragment of a legal document or draft. Mentions the maṭbakh (sugar refinery) known by the name of "the sons of al-Lebdī" (awlād al-Lebdī); a …